RED ALERT

juno steel and the eye of the beholder

the fixation is coming back stronger then ever I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT NOW!!!!!!! MY AUTISTIC BRAIN WAS NOT BUILD FOR THIS ANTICIPATION WRAAAHHHHH either way have this quick juno my lovely lady,, ive been doing a lot of artstyle experimentation lately n im loving how this came out

What do they see....

some of my personal favorite penumbra quotes (all from season 1 & 2)

-“nothing a shower and a few vaccinations won’t fix” (peter)

-“those damn things give my heebies jeebies” (juno)

-“he pulls off the mask, and there he is: peter nureyev, looking like a knight in stolen armor” (juno)

-“i would love to but i can’t think of a single damn conclusion to jump to” (juno)

-[menacingly] “have you ever heard a gold fish scream before, young man” (nphd lyle monrovean)

-“if you don’t want to know what impromptu surgery feels like coming from a one-eyed mainiac with nothing to lose, doc, i recommend you keep quiet” (juno, because who else would say this)

- “it was a bad decision, which made it feel right at home with all my other decisions” (juno)

-“murders like comedy everyone thinks they’re secretly good at it? murder’s like comedy if you do it right the other guy ends up on the floor? or murder is like comedy, both were responsible for 300 deaths in the vaudeville massacre of the 24th century?” (juno)

Happy (extremely late) birthday Juno

watching my friend who started listening to the penumbra podcast go into a gender crisis (i can't interfere it's a canon event)

Me: wow a classic love story between a detective and a thief, how inspiring, how wonderful, nothing can compare I’m in love

Second Citadel: polyamorous monster fuckers?

Me: … say no more

YOUR HONOR

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In reference to this post.

The main thing is what happened in 2021, when the Penumbra Podcast crew hired an artist to promote their new season, but the depictions of the characters were racist stereotypes. This is not the first time they hired this artist and not the first time the fans spoke up about how they felt hurt by it. Specifically poc fans. One of the creators of tpp even acted a bit irrationally and made a thread about the fans being unnecessarily upset, trying to shift blame onto the fandom. It brought more attention to the problem than was warranted. They haven't apologized about it (to my knowledge) but the thread has been deleted since then. This also happened around the time the BLM movement was gaining attention.

It took a while after, but the Penumbra crew eventually took down the depictions and posted an apology on their website. It's not anything special. "We heard you, we listened, it wasn't our intention-" yadda yadda yadda. BUT! They didn't do anything beyond that. They continue to not really showcase poc va's in their show (at least up to the point I stopped listening. don't know anything after like beginning of s3, and my research has come up short). Their reasoning being that race isn't seen negatively in the Juno-verse, but that's just the same as saying don't see color". I remember a lot of black fans got upset with all of this. Their argument was that Juno isn't a story about race. But you can't separate queer issues or classism or any of the other big themes in Juno Steel from racial issues in the real world. It felt like we were being neglected in this universe and the things many queer poc fans are actually facing were being avoided in fiction spaces yet again.

Where I was on social media, previous Penumbra fans told everyone to stop listening and boycott the show. I don't know if this was the right move in retrospect, especially since it didn't do anything. But I was younger and couldn't think for myself, so I followed the crowd. At this point in my own life l've left tpp behind for so long that I don't really care to start listening again anyways. Especially since there are so many podcasts out there that I enjoy more and actually do amplify poc voices.

NOTE: Everything I've said here is mainly from my loose recollection and a bit of fact checking here and there. To be honest I wasn't too invested in the issue when it was happening so I didn't pay too close attention. Take everything I've said here with a grain of salt, just in case. And do your own research on this if you want to know more. I'm sure there's stuff l've forgotten to say.

And if anyone who knows more or is keeping up with tpp wants to say something, please feel free to add onto this post.

get you a lady who can do both

Guys guys guys Juno steel final season starts soon and I have THOUGHTS…so many…

Ok firstly, I hope that they bring back up the fact that Juno has some alien blood junk going on with him.  like so far it’s been mostly dismissed (to my knowledge) and I’m thinking maybe this season they will finally do something with that part of Juno‘s story when he was still on Mars. 

Next, PETER!!! MF!!! NUREYEV!!??! Baby girl where did u go?? I was really happy about seeing more of Peter’s backstory through the journal he left behind. I think it’s an interesting way to narratively explain how Peter came to act the way he does and also this could be a nice lead in to where he would potentially be. (Ngl I don’t remember if we know where he’s at rn?? I’m guessing we don’t know)

Lastly, though it is sad to see the crime family go their separate ways I think it would be interesting to have a offshoot series, potentially after Juno’s story is wrapped up, where we see different parts of the crime families’ life post break up.

Basically, I’m just so excited about a new episode dropping because I have been STARVED of Juno steel content for TOO LONG!!!

juno steel has been a more consistent presence in my life than some friends and FAMILY MEMBERS!!!

Some Juno drawings I did while I was listening to the penumbra pod a while back, for some reason went with the MOST cartoony and cutesy style for the noir detective story lmao

Canon Aspec Swag: Arteloth Beck vs Sir Talfryn

Arteloth Beck from Priory of the Orange Tree who is greysexual, implied in text and confirmed by word of god

vs

Sir Talfryn from The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel who is aromantic and asexual, confirmed in text.

TAL: I don’t think I like damsels. MARC: You… what? I’m guessing you don’t mean the bugs. TAL: No. MARC: So… guys, then? TAL: No. I don’t like men, or women, or bugs, or… anybody. Not that way. MARC: Huh. No joke? No interest at all? Sounds kinda nice, actually. TAL: I think it’s going to be. Now that you know.

i know i should listen to the new episodes but i keep coming back to the good old days